Molly Haskell

“….[T]he emphasis is on inner discovery and acceptance: the realization that the road not taken--becoming the muse/mistress of the dreamboat writer she knew in high school--was probably not worth taking anyway, and that being a middle-aged mother in the 'eighties is a nice place to be. 

“Because the relationship between Turner and Cage remains undeveloped, the resolution is unsatisfying. But the movie glows from the presence of Kathleen Turner. In her richest performance yet, she blends the poignancy of a Capra heroine with the tough, sardonic insight of an 'eighties woman.” 

-- Molly Haskell, Vogue, November 1986